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Set 446
Memory Lane |
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2007 Reunion
Photo Gallery
Where are they now?
A Quiz
Our next reunion - 35th
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Would you be happy to share you memories of your time
at The London 1977-1980? No matter how vague or obscure they will be
interesting to capture. Just email me and I'll post them up here (click
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"Does anyone remember Sister Paulin? Before we stared the
early shift we all had to kneel and say prayers?" posted by Trish K
23.05.07 |
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"I remember my first pay check of £103; I had my original
payslip till a couple of years ago" posted by Trish K 23.05.07 |
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"When I was on Rothschild I remember Trevor Booking coming to
the ward before the cup final to speak to the patients and the nurses"
posted by Trish K 23.05.07 |
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"Also we had an opera singer on the ward, he was in a
side room. In the mornings he helped with the teas and then he use to sing
to us!! I remember we had female patients for some reason on the ward they
use to wake up early, put their make up so they were ready for him"
posted by Trish K 23.05.07 |
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"Does anybody remember Gwendoline, the married mature student who was
probably about 21 on retrospect?" posted by Nicky 21.04.07 |
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"I do remember during PTS Gwendoline taking me and others to the west end to
a beer Keller where we drank lots of beer, sang and stood on the chairs or
tables, does any body else remember this?" posted by Nicky 21.04.07 |
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"I didn't often socialise as I was very in love with my Italian and would
dash home to see him at every opportunity!! There was my Mother worried I'd
marry too young!!" posted by Nicky 21.04.07 |
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"Another memory was going down to Minehead in Somerset one holiday, walking
down the high street and bumping into Judy Bethal" posted by Nicky
21.04.07 |
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"Steady Nick with those stories...one of my earliest memories
of living in the nursing home was Ailsa Murray in her dressing gown and
toothbrush in hand at 8.30pm as some of us were about to go out for the
night during the introductory course??!" posted by Trish 10.04.07 |
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"Meeting the MOST unfriendly social secretary Mrs Watson...I
asked for the local hockey club and she told me there wasn't one and to
start one myself...yeh right!" posted by Trish, 10.04.07 |
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"How many of us nursed famous people??!! Trevor Brooking
opened the door for me once :) ..a few other West Ham players...plus some
t.v people !!" posted by Trish 10.04.07 |
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"In a lecture one day we were asked who knew what a
particular word in English meant...none of us put our hands up except
Suzanne ( can't remember her last name) ....and she was Swiss!!" posted by
Trish 10.04.07 |
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"My earliest memories are seeing Rosie struggle off the tube with
an enormous case, my trunk getting lost and the tricks Trish used to play on
me" posted by Nicky 03.04.07 |
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"Remember Helen, the cook, at the London at night ? She used to serve us
gigantic portions and looked after us all really well" posted by Jane S
10.04.07 |
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"A couple of us went to the
feathers and a medic took us over to the Med school and into the dissection
rooms. He proceeded to remove a cloth from a table with quite a flourish and
underneath was half a head!! A bit of a shock" Posted by Annabel 26.03.07 |
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"Friday 29 April 1977 We put on our purple passions for the 1st time. Went
for breakfast in the canteen and then into School. We were all told off for
wearing an incomplete uniform - no cap. We were instructed how to the make
the cap. Then told to put it on to walk back to Luckes to get changed into
Mufti" posted by Jane S 26.03.07 |
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"On Thursday 12 May 1977 21 of us from the Set along with
60 other Student Nurses went to the Florence Nightingale Commemoration Day
Service at Westminster Abbey. It was the 1st time we wore our Uniform"
posted by Jane 25.03.07 |
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"Monday 30 May in the evening we had our 'At Home' in the Common Room at the
School of Nursing. The tutors were there and lots of the Mum's and Dad's
were there too. We saw a recruitment film about The London it was made
around 1960 and we all found it very funny" posted by Jane S 26.03.07 |
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"I also remember doing the night round on my first night
and realising that I was the repeating the same three diagnosis in exact
rotation, it was so weird even saying it that I was almost laughing. The
charge nurse clearly thought I was making it up and checked - he was as
surprised as I was that I was right (I'd guessed the ages and they must have
been close enough!)" posted by Julia 23.03.07 |
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"We used to let one of the patients smoke at the nurses station on
our nights (better than setting his bed on fire). We always went and smoked
out of the bathroom window even though no-one would have known the
difference, but the charge nurse (who always stood too close to you on
rounds) accused us of burning the Kardex. Fortunately Jane (the acting
sister) backed us up as the patient had done it a week earlier on her shift"
posted by Julia 23.03.07 (edited by Jane!) |
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"I remember those enormous bath tubs, with steps to get
into them and the large notice telling you to get dried and apply talcum
powder BEFORE getting out of the bath. You then had to climb back up to
clean the bath out with that horrible scratchy vim. I still can't get out of
the shower without drying my feet first!" posted by Julia 23.03.07 |
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"The cat [see below] was rescued outside the school of nursing by Angela,
Rose and I, eventually giving birth under Rose's bed (it was Jubilee Day and
we were the only people not having a day off as we were in PTS) We
eventually found a home for cat and kittens, before going to Mile End"
posted by Julia 21.03.07 |
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"Putting on my Uniform for the very 1st time towards the
end of PTS and going to the Florence Nightingale Memorial Service at
Westminster Abbey - I felt so very proud to be at The London" posted by Jane
S 20.03.07 |
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"Working nights on Devonshire Ward on my 21st birthday - sitting between
beds 16 & 17 in the big end listening to the hospital radio at midnight and
singing Happy Birthday to myself" by Jane S 20.03.07 |
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"The hostel bar" posted by Jane S 20.03.07 |
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"Cancelling, at the last minute, my very 1st overseas holiday to Corfu in
our 1st year. The flight was booked for the last Friday we were in School.
Mrs Anderson said that Mrs Schrivner would be over to give out the
allocations and wo betide anyone who wasn't there. 9 of us were booked to
go, 8 went!!" posted by Jane S 20 .03.07 |
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"Two of us climbed into Sister Sear's uniform on what we
thought was her day off. Having been buttoned up she then walked in for an
early. Luckily she was the 1st to laugh" posted by Jane S 20.03.07 |
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"Working on my 1st ward (George Ward) and looking after so many dying
patients. When I arrived on my 2nd ward (Devonshire Ward) I asked "why does
no-one die on this ward?" I had the distinct impression by this stage that
you came into hospital and died" Posted by Jane S 20.03.07 |
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"Working nights on David Hughes Ward in my 3rd year and as
a treat (& against all the rules) letting the kids to stay up to see Planet
of the Apes on the telly. Big mistake. By 3am they were still up racing
around the ward on their toy boxes - totally wired" posted by Jane S
20.03.07 |
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"Having Rosie Cunliffe (Set 436) as my Rota Leader on my 1st ward and
learning so much - she was a 3rd year and I was so in awe of her skill and
expertise, along with such attention to detail" posted by Jane S 20.03.07 |
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"I remember that
first day so well - I was late for starters and apparently breezed in
looking very confident, I was quaking in my boots and mortified in reality.
I've always been good at looking confident and in control, which is probably
why I succeeded at nursing!" posted by Julia 16.03.07 |
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"I very clearly remember doing meal relief on your {Jane's} ward on
nights just before the exams and going over ectopic pregnancy, which Angela
had a strong feeling about, and guess what came up on the day, yipee!"
posted by Julia
16.03.07 |
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"Night duty at Mile End Hospital and being there on the night
that Elvis died. (orthopaedic ward...can't remember the name)"
posted by Heather
13.03.07 {Robinson Ward - female orthopaedic, Morris Ward - male
orthopaedic} |
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"First injection into an orange....that was fine.....first
injection into a person... that was fine too......first time putting someone
on a bedpan after just getting back from Theatre having had a bilateral hip
replacement hearing and seeing their pain......ready to faint then.....I can
remember swaying down the corridor trying not to fall over"
posted by Heather
13.03.07 |
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"Arriving on the
first day and meeting up in the Luckes common room and being really
pleased to spot some familiar faces of those who been interviewed at the
same time" posted by Kay 12.03.07 |
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"Nitty Nora" posted by Kay
12.03.07 |
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"Being called
'nurse' for the first time and thinking they meant someone else" posted
by Kay 12.03.07 |
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"Giving my
first bedpan to a patient and putting it under them the wrong way round"
posted by Kay 12.03.07 |
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Bethnal Green
cockroaches. I'd never seen one before but if I woke and put the light on,
they'd all scuttle under the bed " posted by Kay 12.03.07
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"Walking back
to Bethnal Green at about midnight, finding a tramp with no legs lying in
the road, going to the police station to report it and being laughed at.
(Would students walk alone at that time of night now?)" posted by
Kay 12.03.07 |
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"Electricity cuts. I
think it was the miners strike" posted by Kay 12.03.07 |
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"Enjoying living in
London" posted by Kay 12.03.07 |
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"Bethnal Green
kitchens, where the walls were all yellow due to a thick coating of grease
and a constant smell of frying food" "posted by Kay 12.03.07 |
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"I've got lots more
of odd memories and I'm sure everyone else has but the main thing that
sticks in my mind is how much I enjoyed my years in London" posted
by Kay 12.03.07 |
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"Cockroaches all over the kitchen floor at Mile End
Hosp......counted at least 30 before they scuttled back under the kitchen
units"
posted by Heather 13.03.07 |
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"Shoulder height flying cockroaches meandering their way past
me on my way onto night duty at the London!"
posted by Heather
13.03.07 |
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"My
earliest memory was moving into Luckes Home, ground floor long corridor room
9. Sitting on my trunk, the 1st record that came on the radio was December
63 'Oh what a night' by Frankie Valli and 4 Seasons" posted by Jane S 05.03.07 |
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"Lots of memories of Lottie on
reception of Luckes Home. Most of my post seemed to go straight into the bin
before ever getting to me" posted by Jane S 05.03.07 |
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"I remember getting my Social
Club card and membership into the Three Feathers Club" posted by Jane S
05.03.07 |
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(Jane's photo collection) |
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" The first night I went into
the Three Feathers was to meet some people from Set 445 who were going to
help me to make my cap. The record that was playing when I walked in was Van
McKoy 'The Shuffle' There was great excitement as several people had
tickets for Peter Gabriel concert. He had just released 'Salisbury Hill'. It
played several times on the jukebox that night" posted by Jane S 05.03.07 |
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(Jane's photo collection) |
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"I remember someone bringing a
pregnant cat into Luckes Home. We all gave up one of our purple passions to
line her box ready for the birth. We spent weeks afterwards trying
to hide the kittens from the cleaners" posted by Jane S 05.03.07 |
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"Our tutors were Mrs E
Anderson (Senior Tutor for the Green Sets) Miss Campion, Miss V Chapman, Mr
P Roe, Mrs Westcomb (clinical tutor) & Miss J Humphries (clinical tutor)"
posted by Jane S 05.03.07 |
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Have you enjoyed reading these? email me your
memories 1977-1980 then NOW!!!
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Photo of Miss Humphries taken
~ 2000
(Jane's photo collection) |
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